Manufacturing feasibility of high efficiency, miniaturised and customised Photovoltaic components for wearable and IoT applications

用于可穿戴和物联网应用的高效率、小型化和定制光伏组件的制造可行性

• 批准号: 10076228
• 金额: $ 12.23万
• 依托单位: LIGHTRICITY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10076228
• 关键词: Manufacturing; feasibility; efficiency; miniaturised; customised

Lightricity has developed and commercialised world leading efficiency photovoltaic (PV) technology which is up to 6x better at harvesting energy than commercially available silicon-based PV. This renewable energy source can enable the IoT to overcome the barriers of battery-related waste and maintenance costs thus enabling it to be more scalable and sustainable.In recent years Lightricity have sought to migrate manufacturing of its PV component and system to Europe and the UK in order to address a range of shortcomings of offshore production including responsiveness for customisation and disruptions of supply. We have options for all stages of manufacture in Europe and the UK now other than the assembly packaging and test step. There are UK packaging houses that have general capabilities in the packaging techniques of relevance, however, each has proven uncomfortable with what they perceive to be a high level of risk in applying these techniques to our PV due to requirements for custom shapes, small sizes, thickness reduction and ruggedisation. This inability to bridge the gap from semiconductor research to actual commercial volume production is an addressable shortcoming.This project therefore aims to address the feasibility of transferring our PV packaging stage to UK suppliers by carrying out technical de-risking activities at Lightricity and with selected packaging houses and transferring knowledge from our experiences working with overseas suppliers. We will focus, in particular, on packaging techniques combined with smart interconnect methods. By supporting the companies to overcome the risk hurdles, we will enable them to scale up to cost effective and flexible UK volume manufacture of packaged PV which can then underpin global opportunities to lead the scalable and sustainable deployment of the IoT.

Lightricity开发了世界领先的高效光伏(PV)技术并将其商业化，该技术在收集能源方面比商业上可用的硅基光伏高出6倍。这种可再生能源可以使物联网克服与电池相关的浪费和维护成本的障碍，从而使其更具可扩展性和可持续性。近年来，Lightricity寻求将其光伏组件和系统的制造迁移到欧洲和英国，以解决离岸生产的一系列缺点，包括对定制的响应能力和供应中断。除了组装、包装和测试步骤外，我们现在在欧洲和英国的所有制造阶段都有选择。有英国的包装厂，具有一般的能力在相关的包装技术，然而，每个都被证明不舒服，他们认为这些技术的高风险应用到我们的光伏，由于定制形状，小尺寸，厚度减少和加固的要求。因此，该项目旨在解决将我们的光伏封装阶段转移到英国供应商的可行性，方法是在Lightricity和选定的封装厂进行技术降低风险活动，并将我们与海外供应商合作的经验传授给英国供应商。我们将特别关注与智能互连方法相结合的封装技术。通过支持这些公司克服风险障碍，我们将使它们能够扩大到具有成本效益且灵活的封装光伏在英国的批量生产，从而为引领物联网可扩展和可持续部署的全球机遇奠定基础。